Anabasis - about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II. The book then moves on to Cyrus' Greek troops travels through Asia Minor back home to Greece.
True History– documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction.
Ibn Hawqal, Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler. Travelled to remote parts of the European Mediterranean, Asia and Africa. Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ (صورة الارض; "The face of the Earth").
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Kitab ila Mulk al-Saqaliba (A letter to the king al-Saqaliba, Ibn Fadlan's account of the caliphal embassy from Baghdad to the King of the Volga Bulghars, c. 921)
11th century
Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088), Persian traveler in the Middle East
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356),[1] an imaginary account of his travels in Asia based on a variety of true sources about the eastern countries, such as Pordenone's.
Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469), Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled extensively through the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia.
Account of Niccolò de' Conti* (translated into Latin by Poggio Bracciolini, c. 1444)[2]
Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand AD 1403-6.[1]
Ghiyath al-din Naqqash who wrote, in Persian, a detailed account of his travel from Herat to Beijing on a diplomatic mission in 1420-1422. It became one of the most detailed accounts of China in the Persian and Turkish literature for the next century or two.
Ma Huan (ca. 1380 - 1460) and Fei Xin (ca. 1385 - after 1436), each of whom wrote a book about the lands visited with Zheng He's fleet.
Niccolò de' Conti (1395–1469), an Italian merchant who explored India, China and Indonesia from 1419 to 1444.
His travel account was written by request of Pope Eugene IV and is included in Book IV of "De varietate fortunae" by Poggio Bracciolini.
Pedro Tafur (c. 1410 – c. 1484) Spanish diplomat of king Juan II of Castile. He travelled across Europe, Morocco and the Near East.
Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos.[1]
Afanasy Nikitin (?–1474), Russian merchant, traveler and writer
Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) an account of his travels to the Holy Land alongside Erhard Reuwich, an artist hired specifically to make the woodblock prints for the Peregrinatio. This book is one of the first fully illustrated pilgrims' guides in history.[3]
Peregrinação (meaning "Pilgrimage", published posthumously in 1614)– memoir of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Ethiopia, Arabian Sea, India and Japan, as one of the first Europeans to reach it in 1542.
Navigationi et Viaggi ("Navigations and Travels") (1555-1559);[4] a large collection of explorers' first-hand accounts of their travels around the world, the first one of its kind.
Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) about his voyage to India
Anthony Knivet (fl. 1591–1649), British sailor and privateer, who was held captive in Brazil by the Portuguese and then by the indigenous Tupí.
The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea (1591)
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 - 1611), Dutch merchant, trader, and historian who traveled throughout India and Southeast Asia as a secretary to the Portuguese Viceroy.
Itinerario (1596), published in English as Discours of Voyages into Y East & West Indies (1598)
Des Sauvages: ou voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brouages, faite en la France nouvelle l'an 1603 (1604)
Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles au voiage qu'il en a faict en icettes en l'année 1599 et en l'année 1601, comme ensuite
Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632
Traitté de la marine et du devoir d'un bon marinier (1632)
Samuel Purchas, (c. 1577–1626), English cleric and travel writings compiler.
Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (1613) [1]
Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the historie of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration, (1619)
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625).[1]
Richard Pococke English bishop in Ireland, the traveller in Europe and the Middle East
A Description of the East and Some other Countries
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy.
"A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727, an account of Defoe's tours, or circuits, throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, with a focus on the social and cultural landscape as well as the geographic.
Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional (1748)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)– known for the letters she wrote during several trips abroad, which were important for later female travel writers. These letters include:
Turkish Embassy Letters– letters describing her life as an ambassador's wife in Turkey, important as one of the earliest discussions of the Muslim world by a woman
James Bruce (1730–1794), a Scottish traveller in North Africa and Ethiopia.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790) where he claims to have been the first European to discover the source of the Blue Nile, despite previous accounts by Paez and Lobo mentioned above.[1]
Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789– record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings.
Safarnama e Rome-o-Misr-o-Sham ("Travelogue of Rome and Egypt and Syria", 1892), a travelogue of Rome, Egypt, Syria and Turkey along with his scholar companion Thomas Walker Arnold
Au Pied du Sinaï (1898; new ed. 2000). Travels in Jewish Europe down to Palestine
Edward Ermatinger (1797-1876)
Edward Ermatinger's York Factory Express Journal: being a record of journeys made between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the years 1827-1828 (published 1912)
The Cyclades, or, Life among the insular Greeks (London, 1885)
The ruined cities of Mashonaland, being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891 (London, 1891)
The Sacred City of the Ethiopians. Being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 (London, 1893)
Southern Arabia (London, 1900 – completed posthumously by Mabel Bent)
20th century
Nagai KafuAmerican Stories (being diaries of his travels through America, first published in Japanese as Amerika monogatari, 1908), modern ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.
a Slovene anthropologist who spoke 12 world languages published 24 books and over 40 literary works between 1921 and 1937 from her travels in China, Japan, Papua New Guinea, India, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia, Peru.
Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India (1936)– a somewhat curmudgeonly account of 1934 travels in British India by a later famous Canadian journalist and television personality.
Richard Halliburton (1900–1939), one of the most famous explorers and adventure writers of his generation
The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)–Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) described van der Post as the person in whose company he'd most like to spend an evening. This book by the South African soldier/explorer/writer suggests why.
Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (1945)– this text describes Durrell's time in Corfu. It should be read in tandem with his brother Gerald'sMy Family and Other Animals.
Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953)– experiences in Rhodes.
Hodoljublja (1982, "TV Sarajevo" Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Travelogue - a travel documentary with focus on culture, traditions, art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (ex) Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned, primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin.)
Nekrolog jednoj caršiji (1958) (Obituary of a caršija (the downtown/main street Ottoman-Turkish style bazaar)) (with an introduction by Ivo Andrić)
Pisma iz Azije (1973) (Letters from Asia)
Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope (Letters from Africa & Europe)
Stogodišnje price (Centennial tales)
Putovanje bijelom Ladom (1982) (Voyage with white "Lada" ("Lada" is a brand of Russian automobile))
Adakale
Zelena coja Montenegra (Green carpet of Montenegro - co-authored with Serbian novelist Momo Kapor)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) - American novelist, poet of French-Canadian descent
My Family and Other Animals (1956)– a description of an idyllic childhood on Corfu in the 1930s by the brother of Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990). This text combines natural observations, humour, storytelling, and travel.
Fillets of Plaice (1971)
Jan Morris (1926-2020)– author of many works, especially about cities; prior to the 1970s, her work was published under her previous name, "James Morris."
The Motorcycle Diaries (1952)– Traces the 8000km trip through South America of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado a 29-year-old biochemist (who also published his own diaries of the event in Travelling with Che Guevara).
Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (2001) – winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 'Travel Book of the Year'[8] and North American Travel Journalist Association 'Grand Prize'[9]
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Rome, Naples et Florence [par] Stendhal. Texte établi et annoté par Daniel Muller, préf. de Charles Maurras (1919), Paris: E. Champion. Volume I et Volume II
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